Snow! It's a Foolscap Tradition

Well, I'm showing up late this week but my excuse is strong. We had our online conventions this weekend, and it was more socializing than I've done since, well since this convention last year. So I was exhausted, and gave myself a few days off from screens afterward. I had fun watching panels, chatting on Discord, and playing games. Some new friends showed up (easier to get to a convention from your home than traveling!). 

I also managed to finish more books than I started, and to make progress on most of the books I'm claiming to be reading. So that felt almost like accomplishing things. 

My nephew turned 18 (gulp) and we had a nice celebration at home, with cake from the Cheesecake Factory and dinner from Red Robin. He's been into Egyptian stuff lately, so I gave him a box of assorted Egyption stuff. And then we all watched The Mummy.

Other than that I haven't seen much TV. I did watch one episode of Nailed It (Mexico version) to see if that would remind me to cook, but it didn't work.

My currently reading is still 23, which is still ridiculous but less so than last week.

The Book Date does a weekly roundup of what people are reading, want to read, or have read each week called "It's Monday! What Are You Reading" but I'm late so I probably won't sign up. Ditto for the children's lit version at either Teach Mentor Texts or Unleashing Readers. 

Started

Kat & Mouse 2: Tripped, Alex de Campi. Sequel to a book I enjoyed.

Nightshades, Melissa F. Olson.  For my Friday book club. Which got postponed.

Completed

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, Ursula Vernon aka T. Kingfisher. This is a charming children's book filled with competency and a willingness to work hard at one's job and to do the right thing, which may be helping orphaned friends or may be defending one's city from an attacking army. I liked how it paused to examine things like the political abuse of heroism, or what children should be protected from, but I also liked the idea of a sourdough starter as a weapon of mass destruction and a gingerbread man familiar. I'll keep recommending these books.

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon, Charles Fishman. As my brother said, once you start thinking of this book as a collection of essays about the moon landings instead of a history of them, it works much better. I had bogged down on the chapter about computers, because Fishman never mentions the people known as computers in his excitement about how Apollo helped define modern computers (NASA bought transistors in such volume that companies learned to make them quickly, cheaply, and accurately). But the stuff about Kennedy's deeply political attitude towards space versus the legacy he left to Johnson and the discussion of the constantly redefining of success and the massive gains the project brought to America, science and the world are things that I'll probably remember. For a little while, anyway.

Kat & Mouse 2: Tripped, Alex de Campi. Sequel to a book I enjoyed. The first book was a Cybils finalist, and I liked the mix of middle school shenanigans, mystery of the prankster, and MacGyver type sleuthing, so I came back for more. The friend drama was rather standard (jealousy, mean girl maneuvering) but there were also several pranks and a science move using batteries to retrieve mail from a mailbox during a crime investigation. I'm enjoying these and will read the next ones.

Punching the Air, Ibi Zoboi. 2020 Cybils finalist. I'm still not a huge fan of verse novels, but the hopelessness of his situation is gut-wrenching. You can see Amal making many poor choices, but he's pushed towards them by the racism in the system -- teachers assume many things about him and also make choices while teaching that tells him they don't care about him, and then wonder why he's reluctant to trust them. And then the world assumes he's a thug and the white boys who attacked them are victims. Details like the racist tattoos on the guards reinforce how the deck is stacked against him at every turn. It's a harsh depiction of America today. 

Return of the Thief, Megan Whalen Turner. I loved the new and the old characters, I was stressed by the political intrigue and the costs political decisions took of the individuals involved, and I loved the elephants. Now I want to reread the entire series from the beginning. 

Bookmarks Moved (Or Languished) In:

My wall of currently-reading books is slightly less massive!

Uncompromising Honor 50/??, David Weber. Baen Free Radio Hour's serial. Argh, for some reason the podcasts aren't automatically appearing in my Apple podcasts lists. And then they keep falling off. I listen on the road (which I've been avoiding because SNOW) but download from wifi so this is a problem. 

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James. Sword and Laser pick. Made some progress!

A Long Time Until Now, Michael Z Williamson. Made some progress! 

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Made progress!

The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein, Farah Mendelson. Hugo finalist. Made progress!

The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton. Made some progress!

Someplace To Be Flying, Charles de Lint. Didn't touch it.

The Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum. Didn't touch it.

The Wine-Dark Sea, Patrick O'Brien. My previous Tuesday book club book. Didn't touch it.

An Extraordinary Union, Alyssa Cole. Made progress!

Sucker Punch, Laurell K. Hamilton. I renewed it so now I'm concentrating on my other dim hero book. But I picked it up a few times. 

Seven Sisters, Lucinda Riley. Because my mom and aunt recommended it. And now the library wanted it back. But I requested it again.

Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer. Oh Edward, you sweet vampire child. You have a nice vocabulary and are clearly ready for the SATS. But it's better to only use the longer word when it actually fits the meaning you want better.

Penric's Fox, Lois McMaster Bujold. Yum. Also, this one is fun because it was written out of order. But I didn't make much progress because I refused to drive anywhere with snow on the ground.

Picture Books / Short Stories:

Who Would Win: Green Ants Vs Army Ants, Jerry Pallotta.

Who Would Win: Tarantula vs Scorpion, Jerry Pallotta.

Who Would Win: Tyrannosaurus Rex vs Velociraptor, Jerry Pallotta. My 2/3rd grade book club topic was this series, since we've had trouble all getting copies of the same book and we like to make sure there's an audio for beginning readers. This was a big hit -- everyone enjoyed the ones they read, and we had fun discussing if Pallotta was right about who would win and then proposing our own battles, starting with other animals and then I started pitting fictional characters against each other and then ending with Librarians vs Teachers! I hope we have as much fun next month.

Bears (Animals Attack), Gail Jarrow. This is me stalking all of Jarrow's nonfiction books. It paired up nicely with the Who Would Win books, and I'd definitely send the kids who finished all the former towards these. The message is, bears don't usually attack people, but when they do, they'll mess you up.

Good Dog, Aggie, Lori Reis. 2009 Cybils Early Reader finalist. Cute pictures, pleasant and simple text in a few short chapters. I read this as a description of how to train a dog that isn't really food oriented. 

Camp Babymouse, Jennifer Holm. 2006 Cybils Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novel finalist. Babymouse would be a very annoying student in a class, but I can see why kids like reading these; she is just silly and just brash enough to be comforting. I would dodge these but I'd make sure the kids had them.

Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin (Roscoe Rules 7), Katherine Applegate. 2009 Cybils Short Chapter Book finalist. I have no idea where my personal line for picture book vs book book is, but this felt like a picture book to me. A first grader avoids having common sense, and sometimes gets in trouble for it. But mostly he got in trouble for being mean to his baby sister, which he accepts as fair even as he prefers to describe it as a pumpkin racing incident. 

Palate Cleansers

These books I'm barely reading; I use them as palate cleansers between books I'm actually reading.

The Educated Child, William Bennett. 

Wool, Hugh Howey. 

Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho. 

Under the Eye of the Storm, John Hersey. 

Dates From Hell, Kim Harrison & others. 

Reading and Learning to Read, Jo Anne Vaca. More about formal and informal methods of evaluating reading skills.

Reading Challenges

1. Cybils 2020. Finished Punching the Air which is very depressing.
2. Cybils 2019. Starting Sal and Gabi Break the World today. For sure. 
3. Cybils 2018. None.
4. Cybils 2017. None. I just need 3 YA books to be done. But YA is hard. 
5. Early Cybils: Read a short chapter book and some picture books.
6. KCLS 10 To Try: 2/10. Cog had a non-human characters. And the Penrics are beloved rereads.
7. Reading My Library. Nothing. 
8. Where Am I Reading 2021: 0/51 states. 1 Country. 

I'm putting this at the end because I suspect it's complete fiction, but I feel I should attempt some structure.

I am reading: 

• Book I own: Children of Time. Next: A Deadly Education
• Library Book: Midnight Sun. Next: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
• Ebook I own: Extraordinary Union.  Up Next: Hmm... Probably the new Penric.
• Library Ebook:  Luminaries. Next: Bourne Factor
• Book Club Book: Nightshades.  Next: The Fold
• Tuesday Book Club Book:  Somewhere To Be Flying. Still haven't finished Wine Dark Sea. 
• Review Book: None. Up Next: Not sure.
• Hugo Book: The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein. Next: Joanna Russ.
• Rereading: Well, there's one more Magpie books...
• Audio: The library seems to have all the Penrics on audio.

Where Am I Reading 2021

With Helpful Suggestions at the bottom.

Once again I want to track where I'm reading this year, and once again I'm too lazy to set up a google map for it. The list is an easier way to see which states I've been hitting and which I've been missing. I think I'll bold the ones I missed in 2020. And then I'll track which countries I'm reading in (sometimes it's a guess, since countries in the past had different borders), and I'm also giving myself suggestions in case I want to seek out a location.

I belatedly found an Official Challenge for this: 2021 Literary Escapes Challenge. I should wander over there to get some good ideas for my missing states.

Alabama: Almost American Girl, The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks

Alaska:

Arizona: Dead Heat, Displacement, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, Even If We Break

Arkansas: Race Against Time

California: Condor Comeback, Wild Sign, The Fold, Kobe Bryant, Kiyo Sato, Wild Sign, Land of the Cranes, Manson Family Murders, Efren Divided, OJ Simpson Murder Case, Parable of the Sower Graphic Novel, Life Sucks, Handful of Earth Handful of Sky, A Russian Cage, Cuckoo's Egg, Singled Out

Colorado: How to Raise a Honest Rabbit

Connecticut: 

Delaware: 

Florida: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Nickel Boys, 

Georgia: Taking on the Plastics Crisis, Reckless, High Cotton, Ring Shout,, Unbelonging

7/10

Hawaii: Forever Strong

Idaho: Walk Two Moons

Illinois: Nightshades, Outbreak

Indiana: You Should See Me In a Crown

Iowa: 

Kansas:

Kentucky: 

Louisiana: The Vanishing Half, Someplace to Be Flying, Louisiana Longshot, King and the Dragonflies, Gator Bait, Singled Out

Maine: Stowed Away, Echo Mountain

Maryland: Extraordinary Union, Beautiful Struggle (Young Reader)

7/10

Massachusetts: Lizzie Borden Ax Murders, Gardner Museum Heist, From the Desk of Zoe Washington, Show Me a Sign

Michigan: Sucker Punch, A Bollywood Affair, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

Minnesota: Cat Tricks, Chaos on CatNet, Minn of the Mississippi, Future Home of the Living God

Mississippi: 

Missouri: 

Montana: Burn Bright

Nebraska: You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey

Nevada: 

New Hampshire: Kat & Mouse 2-4, Nos4A2

New Jersey: Murder at Veronica's Diner, We Are Not Broken

7/10

New Mexico: You Brought Me the Ocean

New York: Shadows In Death, Punching the Air, Class Act, The Son of Sam Killings, Faithless in Death, Wonder, Invisible Life of Addie LaRou, The City We Became, Riot Baby, American Fairytale, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, The Black Friend, Forgotten in Death, Princess for Christmas

North Carolina: Chiggers, The Twisted Ones

North Dakota: 

Ohio: 

Oklahoma: One Perfect Kiss, Black Birds in the Sky

Oregon: Playing With Fire, Thirteens

Pennsylvania: His Pretend Amish Bride, The Conductors

Rhode Island: Pucker

South Carolina: 

7/10

South Dakota

Tennessee: Fighting Words

Texas:  Elatsoe, Assassination of John F Kennedy, An Easy Death, Punching Bag

Utah: Switchback

Vermont: 

Virginia: They'd Better Call Me Sugar, Gift of the Magpie

Washington: Storm Cursed, Midnight Sun, Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear, Good Kind of Trouble, Field Guide to Getting Lost 

West Virginia: Apple Cider Slaying

Wisconsin: Switchback

Wyoming: Tempest

8/10

Washington D.C.: Ambushed, Taste of Blackberries, Notes from a YOung Black Chef

37/51

World Reading:

North America (non-US): 3

Canada: The Marrow Thieves, The Chai Factor, The Blue Castle, Emiko Superstar

Mexico: La Perdida

Caribbean: Crogan's Vengeance

Asia: 7

Turkmenistan: A Bride's Story 9 (probably)

Turkey: A Bride's Story 10 (probably), A Bride's Story 11 (definitely)

Kazakhstan: Laika

Japan: Yotsuba& 4, Meltdown, Explore the Future through Science Fiction

Afghanistan: A Long Time Until Now

China: Mulan: Before the Sword, Empress of Salt and Fortune

Thailand: A Wish in the Dark (magical)

Europe: 8

UK: The War That Saved My Life, Take a Hint Dani Brown, A Case of Possession, Silver in the Wood, Two Rogues Make a Right, The Talisman Ring, Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, Northanger Abbey, Piranesi, Murder Must Advertise, A Murder in Time, Arcadia, Subtle Blood, Rattle His Bones, Black Butler 18, Patience & Esther, Castle of Adventure, The Lost Orphan, Thursday Murder Club, Secret Garden (Graphic Novel), Raven Black (Scotland), Year of Wonders, To the Hilt, Rat Race, Beowulf

Germany: Games of Deception, Be My Guest, Black Butler 19

Ireland: Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel

Albania: Unexpected Mrs Pollifax

Czech Republic: I Never Saw Another Butterfly 

France: White Bird, Ghost Talkers

Italy: From Scratch

Russia: Last Witnesses

Africa: 2

In Bibi's Kitchen (East African coast)

Kenya: When Stars Are Scattered

Egypt: The Buried Pyramid

South America: 1

Argentina: Furia

Countries: 21

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Suggestions That I Think I Would Like: 

Alaska: Back Home

Arkansas:  

Colorado: Hidden Valley Road

Connecticut: Home for Goddesses and Dogs

Delaware: 

Hawaii:  

Indiana: 

Iowa: Amy had something for me 

Kansas:

Kentucky: 

Maryland: 

Massachusetts: 

Michigan: 

Minnesota:

Mississippi: 

Missouri: 

Nebraska:

Nevada: 

North Carolina: 

North Dakota: 

Ohio: 

Oklahoma:  Killers of the Flower Moon 

Pennsylvania: 

Rhode Island: 

South Carolina: 

South Dakota

Tennessee:  The Sentinel 

Utah

Vermont: 

Virginia: 

Washington D.C.: 

Cold Wet Winter

Well, January certainly happened, didn't it? I think I'm quite ready to move on to February, which I think I shall consider the start of the new year, since I haven't really been on the ball yet for the past month.

February will be the Virtual Incarnation of my local Foolscap convention, a small genre convention with a theme for 2021 of We Can Make It! We're celebrating all the things we've done, created, and maintained during this crazy year, and of course, we are doing it virtually this year because we're still in a pandemic. Come join us for some talks about books, about art, about writing, and about reading and making all the things while we've been at home. It's the weekend of February 12-13th if anyone wants to check us out!

I'm still caught up with WandaVision; things are starting to get interesting as they break up a bit. I don't trust SWORD any more than I did SHIELD. Probably all Hydra anyway. 

Folding towels and clothes takes longer, so I made it through episodes 2.20 and 2.21 of Star Trek Voyager and then 2.20 of Deep Space Nine. Although Parrish and Neelix are not my favorite crew members I enjoyed "Investigations" because I like the idea of Tom being asked to screw up for the good of the ship, and how easily he managed that. Neelix was also really easy to manipulate. And the implications of "Dead Lock" are fascinating; I'm not sure I would have been as content if my dead baby were replaced with an exact duplicate from a parallel universe. Or my best friend. And then I went to see the introduction to the Maquis terrorist/freedom group in Deep Space Nine, with the mix of idealists (like Chaquote) and thugs (like a lot of his crew).

Cooking was fun -- I made an easy soup with store ravioli, and then a more complicated crockpot enchilada thing, which I thought was going to be an instapot thing but I guess I copied down the wrong recipe. And then I made two dips for the superbowl (an artichoke spinach one and a corn/cheese one) and I was happy. Especially because they were good for nachos the next day.

I keep picking up books but I'm slow to finish them. My currently reading is still 26, since I didn't start that many books this week. Or at least I made sure they were short.

The Book Date does a weekly roundup of what people are reading, want to read, or have read each week called "It's Monday! What Are You Reading" so I'll sign up there. Ditto for the children's lit version at either Teach Mentor Texts or Unleashing Readers. 

Started

A Case of Possession, K.J. Charles. Reread. 

Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold. Because I can't listen to just one. Also, it turns out there's a new one and no one told me, so clearly I have to reread up to it.

A Case of Possession, K.J. Charles, 

How Oliver Olson Changed the World, Claudia Mills. Cybils finalist.

The Chai Factor, Farah Heron. For my Torches and Pitchforks book club.

Penric's Fox, Lois McMaster Bujold. Yum. Also, this one is fun because it was written out of order.

Completed

Penric's Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold. (audio) I found enough places to go to finish this. I really like young Penric -- he's unformed, but his core of decency and curiosity is strong. And Desdemona's surprise at being treated politely and compassionately (she gets a name) makes it easy to believe how quickly she becomes loyal to her accidental guardian. The audio is voiced by the guy who did the Vorkosigan books, so he sounds like an old friend.

Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold. We come back to Penric but spend a lot of time looking at him from the dubious eyes of those around him, who are baffled by this young ink-stained man in clerical robes. I like how solidly Bujold builds the world around him with the religious traditions and customs, and she does it while developing strong characters. Both the shaman and the man hunting him spend a lot of time underestimating Penric in many ways, but especially in his partnership with Desdemonia. Bujold mixes in sly humor as well as poignant observations, so that I'm sad when my 40 mile trip to a distant library is concluded. Maybe I should find another book that only that branch has...

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline. January Sword & Laser pick. I really liked this post-apocalyptic story and I think a lot of that was how it convinced me to let it set the agenda. It was an interesting mix of realism and ignored science, but it worked as itself. It was asking questions about how to define community, how to reclaim a heritage when you've lost most connections to it, how to survive when the larger society is determined to consume you (literally). It also had some teen angst stuff, which dragged a bit -- yes, young men often have trouble accepting that women have agency if that interferes with their fantasy life, and they also think that if they are in competition for a girl they should be concentrating on each other, blah blah blah. The ending was happy, but there's room for a lot more story.

How Oliver Olson Changed the World, Claudia Mills. 2009 Cybils Early Chapter book finalist. This was a great small story about a boy with an overprotective family who manages to gently but realistically push the boundaries out a bit. I liked the small details, like how Pluto was doomed, and how his friends understood his family situation but accepted it as a fact of nature, not Oliver's fault. I was a bit shocked at the teacher giving a history of space flight that managed to forget about the Russians. Um, hello? The dog?

A Case of Possession, K.J. Charles. Reread. I liked that the relationship conflict was about how much to commit when it seems circumstances make a long term thing unlikely -- they want to live on different continents. And of course, being gay is illegal in this London, so that complicates things even more. The outer conflict of some magical villain summoning hordes of giant rats to devour certain people and those nearby doesn't seem to have much of a link, except that the motives go back to love and trust and revenge.

The Chai Factor, Farah Heron. A fun story with a fun protagonist. Amira was in the final stages of her engineering masters, which is a great place to be. So she's stressed over watching her thesis, and has to negotiate the surprise barbershop quartet rooming in what she thought would be her grandmother's quiet basement. I enjoyed watching her negotiate her lovelife, her professional career, and her studies while keeping up with her mom, friends, and sister. The singers and their problems were fun, and Amira's complex relationship with her Muslim community added a lot of texture. Whatshisname was not as interesting; I mostly noticed his insistence on calling her "Princess" for Princess Jasmine even after she and everyone else begged him to stop. But I guess she liked him, and I want her to be happy.

La Perdida, Jessica Abel. 2006 Cybils Graphic Novel finalist. OK, this is an intense look at the year an immature and selfish girl spent living in Mexico and dabbling in authenticism. She's always up for a drink or some drugs but is too lazy to be a good friend, roommate, or girlfriend. Or worker, really. It was hard to read about someone so good at being useless, and when she accidentally passsed along information that got her ex-boyfriend kidnapped for ransom by her friends and their drug dealer connections things spiraled some more. But the end was gripping and powerful, if not enjoyable. So, well written but I didn't enjoy the experience, although I don't regret it at all. A book I'm glad to have read rather than liked reading.

 

Bookmarks Moved (Or Languished) In:

My wall of currently-reading books continues to have a pleasing shape!

Uncompromising Honor 50/??, David Weber. Baen Free Radio Hour's serial. I kept forgetting to actually pull the data down. 

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James. Sword and Laser pick. Didn't touch it.

A Long Time Until Now, Michael Z Williamson. Winter is cold. 

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Didn't touch it.

The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein, Farah Mendelson. Hugo finalist. Ha! I put it on my ipad and got back to it.

The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton. Made some progress.

Someplace To Be Flying, Charles de Lint. Didn't touch it.

The Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum. Didn't touch it.

Return of the Thief, Megan Whalen Turner. Still stressed. I care about these people and they are getting hurt!

The Wine-Dark Sea, Patrick O'Brien. My previous Tuesday book club book. Didn't touch it.

An Extraordinary Union, Alyssa Cole. Didn't touch it.

Sucker Punch, Laurell K. Hamilton. I renewed it so now I'm concentrating on my other dim hero book. 

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to the Moon, Charles Fishman. I should make more progress on this real soon.

Seven Sisters, Lucinda Riley. Because my mom and aunt recommended it. And now the library wants it back just as I got into it! I've requested it again.

Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer. Edward and Anita should meet and discuss relationships sometime.

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, Ursula Vernon. I want something to read on my ipad. And I like how iBooks praises me when I read -- I seem to have set a goal somewhere.

Punching the Air, Ibi Zoboi. 2020 Cybils finalist. I'm still not a huge fan of verse novels, but the hopelessness of his situation is gut-wrenching.

Picture Books / Short Stories:

Yasmin the Gardener, Saadia Faruqi. 2020 Cybils Easy Reader Finalist. Yasmin is a fun girl to read about, with her cosy family and can-do spirit. The book felt a bit didactic as Yasmin figures out how to care for her plants but hey, that's life for young school kids. 

Watch Me Throw the Ball, Mo Williams. 2009 Cybils Easy Reader Finalist. I almost certainly read this back in the day, but I never mind a chance to hang out with Elephant and Piggie again. This one wasn't my favorite; I felt like it threw shade on Elephant's love of learning and glorified Piggie's way of living in the moment. Hey, it's also fun to work hard at things and get good at them!

How the Heal a Broken Wing, Bob Graham. 2008 Cybils Picture Book Finalist. Another reread -- I remember enjoying the warm kindness of the boy's family as they help their son care for the injured pigeon. Which is a flying rat, but a bird one so of course I adore it. It's a lovely meditation on a connection to nature in the city, and how individuals can notice and bring peace to the world. It also worked well with the next day's book. 

The Curious Garden, Peter Brown. 2009 Cybils Picture Book Finalist. A city without nature -- until a boy finds plants he can nurture on the abandoned elevated metro line. From there the picture show the plants creeping out to encompass the world, and the people eagerly responding and growing with them. 

Palate Cleansers

These books I'm barely reading; I use them as palate cleansers between books I'm actually reading.

The Educated Child, William Bennett. What do do if you have a Gifted Child. And how to check yourself because we all think we do, don't we.

Wool, Hugh Howey. 

Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho. 

Under the Eye of the Storm, John Hersey. 

Dates From Hell, Kim Harrison & others. 

Reading and Learning to Read, Jo Anne Vaca. 

Reading Challenges

1. Cybils 2020. Read another early reader and worked on Punching the Air which is very depressing.
2. Cybils 2019. Starting Sal and Gabi Break the World today. Probably.
3. Cybils 2018. None.
4. Cybils 2017. None. I just need 3 YA books to be done. But YA is hard. 
5. Early Cybils: Finished the graphic novel, read a short chapter book and some picture books.
6. KCLS 10 To Try: 0/10
7. Reading My Library. Nothing. 
8. Where Am I Reading: 33/51 states. Wow, I don't think I've finished checking all the 2020 books. I should get on that.

Plans

I'm putting this at the end because I suspect it's complete fiction, but I feel I should attempt some structure.

I am reading: 

• Book I own: Return of the Thief. Next: A Deadly Education
• Library Book: Midnight Sun. Next: Sucker Punch
• Ebook I own: Baker's Guide to Defensive Magic.  Up Next: Extraordinary Union.
• Library Ebook:  Luminaries. Next: Bourne Factor
• Book Club Book: Who Would Win books  Next: 
• Tuesday Book Club Book: One Giant Leap. Next/also: Somewhere To Be Flying. Still haven't finished Wine Dark Sea. 
• Review Book: None. Up Next: Not sure.
• Hugo Book: The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein. Next: Joanna Russ.
• Rereading: Well, there's two more Magpie books...
• Audio: The library seems to have all the Penrics on audio.